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Tl! I KTY-EOt HTIi COMiH Se*«ion.
Washin«.t->s Ju ' ,—The Senate ws* *• M h-•-
won io-tiflv.
HOUSE.
<*lr. Oru»- g.-. \ c notice Unit he won id soon eali up
•t <«»• non to: ci««iter ihe vole by which the bill an
mi'.hng tl La v- ««f Kansas, wiw referred fUtbe cwn«-
irmtee of fee whale on tiie State *i *h- Unio*
Mr. Stephen* introduced n biii authorizing the
U *t;i,a»t- 1 General to enter Into a extract wills
Cm sUHiiUam- m, of Bie-okjv«, to carry to U h* ;
Mat*. mail iii a line of steamer* from NVvr YWV. <•*
Gludstedt vi* win« j» rt in England.
Tn<- House then resumed tin.- eonddej-at*"# off:'-*
rep >rt on .he Summer assault.
Mi Cullen, who was entitled to the floor, ;>;elded
it t<» Mr. English, who wiehodtiooffer au tmeivlntiit
to the pending resolution*, “that the ll*>usc *hflares
’its diwippi obation of the assault. and de€;ins tin* &
lit occasion to express its dhapprobvrion of t. **:
«d language in debate personally offensive to indi
vidual members or t*» State* oi tin* Union.
Mr. Campbell, of Ohio, wished to know whether
the offering of tins prevent him from arncod
mg tie- original r*?-’.utlon.
The Speaker replied that it wouid not prevent
Mr. Campbell from pdfeeti ng the original proposi
tion.
Mr Dean and Mr Maticson objected to Mr. Eng
lish offering hi* amendment.
Mr. Campbell Mid be should move the previous
question, so a* to take the vote on Mondaymorning
with th*- under {standing that if the parties ixqpiicated
denredto be heard, he will withdraw hi* motion for
th* ir benefit, but not for re-opcning the geafcr.il de
ru.fi* f Vnir*iiii '‘thrtVi rit'lit ' i
Mr Uunjina treated if */r.Brook* desired to ad
drew the House, be woukl be allowed to «j>eak «*u
Monday morning.
Alter Home bebate on the question to the nght of
tin- House to take (MJgnizance oi the matter,
Mr Houston, of Alabama, moved to recommit
to*-resolutions and amendments to the committee,
with instructions to report as a substitute a resolu
tinn that flie House of Representative* has no con
stitutional authority to determine *bat are the
privilege* of the Senate, or to punish their violation.
After a further protracted debate, the House ad
journed till Monday.
IN SENATE Ji'y H.
The Se nate* passed several private bills.
Tuf bill to amend the charter of Georgetown. 1).
(• wa- passed, aUoseveral private bilk*.
The bill for the construction of a road from Fort
lUdgefy in the territory of Minnesota, to tl*e South
I'n- ot the Rocky mountains, in the territory of Ne
braska wa* then fak'-n up.
M, Hngg*op)*oM*d it, and Mr. W.dleradvocated it.
|l v then la d over until to-morrow.
Ph*. bill amendatory of the wt to promote toe
l* ; Iry of the Navy bill was taken up, and a dis
. j,.;i on sundry amendments folio wed.
After an unmc<•*•» ful motion to adjourn, at four
i.Vk* k Mr, Toombs obtaiued the floor, saying as
l ,i<- Het.ate was anxious to discus* the question now
I, would proceed to give his views at large.
Mr. Hunter. Will the Senator yield for a motion
to adjourn ?
Mr. T***>mb j N<». rir. The Senate l.u s just r«-
U". *1 to adjourn. I intend to vpakeem the subject,
«n* v;hen the Senators p»*t tired of hearing me,
they ( ■ -o home. I hope, however, t!»*? reporters
will keep their seat* to hear mv speech, as it in in
.!*•«! f. .1 the e>funtry, a* much ns f«>r the Seimte.—
After 1 have spoken t hree or four hours, the Semi
tes from Virginia can make Jur motion to adjourn it
h choose.
Mr. Toombs proceeded to give the history of the
, • au i progress of the Navy, going back to the
foundation oftho Government. There were a very
},• w Monitors in their seats and much ronv< rsation
going on in audible tones
Tie- Chair several times culled th*- Senate to or*
tier wiieu Mr. TtKunlm said tliat the talking *!id Tiot
*jj-slurb him in the least. He wasgiad to hoar the
Si I,utoM sing the subject. It ought to lx? ilis
* us red on this floor, behind the bar, ami all over the
country. | Laughter.]
\tcjunrt* i pint five o’clorrk Mr. Crittcnd* n ob
fumed the lloor by the leave of Mr. Toombs, und
he moved that the Senate adjourn, which was
.. i» • d to by two majority.
HOUSE.
M t -iingman asked that the resolution of the
fr:ing a date for the adjournment of Con
be considi'ied.
Mr. Dunn said he would object till the Kansas
ipii'Htion was settled.
.Mr. Houston. Eis your own day.
Mr. Letclu r prefcmaltbat the House should goon
wit' th*; trial ol *•»)«• of its incmbers.
Mr. Clingmuii mode an unsuccessful motion to
suspend tier rules. Yea* 110, nays 01—not two
thirds.
Mi. Campbell, of Ohio, asked for the further
consideration of the report on the Sumner assault
till Wednesday, for th*- reason that the majority had
had developed to them some facts affecting one of
the parties implicated, and they wanted to consider
th*- propriety of offering an aim ndinent to the
pending resolutions. To this objection was made.
Me. Meoclmin moved the previous question,
which was agreed to.
Mr. Kdmumlson, by general consent, made a
Hatenicnt affecting him*'. If.
11 «* < aused to lu read histe*timony before the «e-
lei t committee ; find th<;ii huui he did not complain
of He -conclusions of the committee as to the effect
• if’l in-testimony which lie had given, but objected
on the ground on which they nought to censure him.
without even giving him notice that they pm posed
introducing n resolution of censure against, him. lie
admitted that lie did know of Mr. 1 books’ intention
to attack Mr. Sumner, Imt lie should have degraded
iiim.Mclf had he revealed the private course of his
friend. The threatened condemnation of the
limine for not betraying confidence would not for
a moment change Ins mind. He was present on
that oeeasion to see fair play. Nothing more, on
both sides.
l’lie committee, he said, had characterized his
conduct hh “reprehensible,” because he and Mr.
Keitl did not take steps to prevent the assault., and
inform Mr. Sumner ol his danger. Hut lie thought
if there was any danger, it was to Mr. Brooks, who
had nothing but his cane, while the report had gone
out that Mr. Sumner was armed. In answer to a
tjuestion from Mr. Dunn, ho said if he hud hn<l an
opportunity of appearing before the committee lie
could have satisfied them tlmt he would not have
interfered in the matter, except iu the case of foul
play.
Mr. Pennington said he laid informed Mr. Kd
muiidsmt that,so far us lie was informed, he (Mr.
Kdmuudson) should have the privilege of apiteariug
before the committee.
Mr. I'Mmundson replied that, after the report was
made, it was then too late, lb-thought that justice
had been denied him in the first place, and that he
would rather appeal to the House.
Mr. Campbell, of Ohio, defended the report, and
lid lie had not only been willing but anxious that
gentlemen implicated should furnish such facts ns
they \> ished in their vindication. He then proceed
ed to show tlmt the question at Issue involves the
v*• i v existence of this government. Whether the
p <>p!< of this land shall have power to govern;
w hether the Constitution and laws on one hand shall
prevail, or, on the other, whether.tho freedom of the
cudgel.
The question whs then taken on the amendment
of Mr. English—that the House declare its disappro
bation of Mi. Brooks’assault on Mr. Sumner, mid
dt mis this a fit occasion to declare its disapproba
tion of the use of language in debate personally of
toii*iv« to individual members of Congress, or States
ol the Union.
ft was disagreed to —yeas do, nayH ire | Mr.
|burnt and Mi. Hoffman were momentarily absent
when their names wen called, but sluted had they
U-i ii present they would have voted in the aiiirutu
The question was then taken on the resolution
• i tin* minority ot the committee, as a substitute
for those of the majority, namely:—That this House
h. « no jurisdiction over the luwmult committed
h\ IV S Brooks on Charles Sumner, and there
to, ( deem it improper to express a* y opinion on the
fins \ ote w«h disagreed tv* —yens t*(i, nays 1 lb.
t'tie question was then taken on the resolution of
the comuutte* —that Preston S. Brooks be and tie is
forthwith expelled from the House as u representa
tive uviin South Carolina.
The question was decided in the negative—yeas
KM, nays t*o - two-thirds not being obtained.
i>i: Brooks rose to a question ot privilege saying
tiifit he had felt that the rights of his coiisiitueiils
an l tin* rights of members lmd been violated l»y the
action ot the House.
Mr. Giddings I wish t«» know wlmtthe question
1 iv',ll ntfttv it.
Mi j)ui«i) I a-k that by unanimous consent the
. nth-man from South Carolina l*e heard.
Mr. biddings. Tor one I shall give m* such eon
s» nt. 1 object to anything out of order from that
j.entUnmn.
Th Spt nkev Tin* gentleman from South Carolina
stales that he rises to a privileged question.
Mr. 1 bum. 1 trust the House will entertain a mo
tion for a suspension of the rules.
Mr Nichols, Delicacy may have prevented the
gentleman from speaking heretofore. It is proper
that he should be heard now. 1 protest in the name
oi truth aud justice against keeping him silent if he
desires to speak. . .
Mr. Kuatri li would be a gross \iomtioui of
e .urtesy and decency to deprive him of the privi-
M,. Florence. The geutleman from South Caro
lina litul risen and was stating his question without
objection, amt it was not in order tor Mr. (biddings
to’ohject to the proceeding.
I' . Speaker It was competent tor the gcntlc
iti-m from Ohio to raise the questiou of order.
M Gnidiog*. We have voted, ami did oiu*
dutv. ami ought not to listen to a speech out of
order.
,\i Campbell of Ohio appealtd ti> Mr. (bindings
In w ulrdvaw U.s objection. Mr. Brooks ought U> be
Mr. ( - umins likewise appealed to Mr. Gtddings
to withd- w hi- objection, and Mr G. yielded onlv
~u ti ..ground to satis!) his friends.
I , loetnbers now crowded to tlie neighborhood
• \{ lb - ks.and the spectators in the galleries
.Manifest, d iutence interest to hear him.
\j i ; oks said 1 •* Mr Sumner uttered a dan*
: on I. .- State, ami on a venerable relative who,
•• ii.--time, was absent. Not conteut with this, h
4 .r..:«>».ed a hbel on tls Mate and blood. Whoever
«.i'Hltv‘ii South Carolina iusuhod him, aud lie slo«»d
; ilv at ail times lnuul.lv and modestly as a sou to
’ .
: u -.poet ;,:;d the good opinion of uis eouutn men,
,f ; u . }. n J permitted the offence tv* pass unpunished.
I W.w- .. pe‘M.m-1 affair, and in taking 1 1dress in his
S
I i Nor an any dwreepuet far
. . lM ».; .jv incurred. cud was prepared tv*
lie know he w»- at.vcable to the laws
; red tiie sair.t* pro(e< cm to every citizen.
. ,i.-i . a v.er ofCongic.v> or in the private
v '', : .J ~ N. r did tie i. ti behove he could t*e
- .. d i v a ev u t of he . and br-iy by a tnajort
•.• tlie Si ante, which body had no ri. tto present
unto the llou>e lt»r puuislunyut. Ine question
iv.• ■. v involved him aud hi* friends but the whole
HUM*.* . , .
Wv edit be pvv pared to meet them lie to or eUmv 1 v-re.
i. nv»Ve h.rhis Y uds (E Huu m>u and Keiit)
airiend w atieket t’: aitadnv:her.** \Yia u.
fc..-y |A|>-
». .use. s run. gH «S*utinvd to tin- gallt riejvj But
...artel mine shah favor revoUuvm. 1 nut not
He would *a\ t * the House thm the ax« i: vl
owrhim may fail on them. He ..ad . uly to .»/
? ,*• it niO ieluui Ins «oa( v-oi - .-lv l.liy u
, -elf n>p i t aud rights nadoifHw Couauiu
I . . ~ . ye.x on a memner
: i«' y. \Ut r«* was trn pr*voeai»g« mi th.o e..nd
.IT- v'in t' 1 lie Mw tee o* M.is.-ach!u*i ft* as Ik ieg
( V again-1* tin* h«w> ««>.. ConaUUiiecn ♦ «* <‘
iu -i , y\f r booa called to order m*r had iw offruded
I ..'t«"*:i»pVcd It* ki”i Mr. Samuv-r My frk uri £ *
VI w tia-rv a pretty a.-.U
.. :h and ! wonhl him C* rab- it aivl vnbmit
,pcei;<*« of tU* grutb iiaa fiomN. w
J ‘ Mr’ijeWiU UM up k r
a t w tut. i I ftitjil gB e th- «.
i .. .ues,oi T wwwm'•. W>*|l .utiuih- vs *t»»> up
Mr. Jlrooks, [l*Hiking up.] If I have friend* in
the gaUt-Tlcs, I appeal to fnem be qai*t. If I desired
to kill the Senotor from Ma why didn't I
«io it ? \on all admit that I had it in my power.
Let me tell the gentleman bom New Jersey that
expressly to prevent t, c taking of life, I had an or
dinary cane presented to m<* by a ft i« ud in Balti
more. I went to I lie faultc Chamber deliberately.
I bositated wliethcrl l a Uors*;wUi;.- *»r a
c iwhide. Knowing fee .!. - jigth of th** Setmtor to
be superior lo inhu-f 1 thought 1- might wrest it
from me. Ifl*e i.au, I ii;ig: t hav • <• what I
would havej^pgrett&lr*-:iiaind- r< ; inyiife. [A
vgpSe. He wo* iiavo kiljt ihfe; Ten r ago,
wofeeittg what the artte • •fthe L m: would be,
mv rc-signaffor. wa* pot m«*> •* of the Gov
ernor of South Carulliia.
f t u«dmg 13* remark ‘ that Ms*r»sebUHeUs
he weak! n»» er pi«ad - he stai ate offeutalons
against the wrath cf that Slate. He quoted from
Mr. Woodruff * speech, strongly condemnatory
of hia conduct, raying ha tiiought a gentleman ut
leritig j-ueb sent‘’a foeman worthy of his
stecHe related, in the language of his friend,
Col. Savage, how Mr. Woodnsff declined meeting
Mr. Brooks in a manner re* >gnized by gentlemen.
[The narrative occasioned laughter.] He said to
Mr. Woodruff, “go lit ! wretch, there is room
enougfi in world for you and rac.' : In hi* judg
ment, the cock that crows and will not fight in de
spised by hen* and pallet*. Laughter, j
Alluding to the remarks of James Watson Webb,
which had been quoted, that the assault deserve*.!
death on the spot,” he .«iid if those who endorsed
that MMriinent wished toplay a game of chivalry
let th. m w ith fee whole Republican crew come ana
lake the life which they say i* forfeited. If his op
pfinc-nts were satbrfied with the present state of the
ca -e he was. He returned hia thanks to bis friend-,
especially to the good Kortliern Democrats and gen
tiemea who had the manhoo*! to *tand by him, n*»t
forgetting J*>un Scoft Harrison, - t Oil to. Sonus
geuUamen, \m believed, had vot' d again -i iii-:: c*n
trary to their wintioa, but were operated upon by
oateide pres.-are, and he spoke in commendation of
■
iith 'itiofi. He concluded by saying ; ** Mr. Speak
er, 1 announce to you und the lion.-' that I am no
:oj,_'.'f a nv.-uiix-r of the Thir:y-lourth Congro**.*’—
fConfusion, applause end hR-es, during which Mr.
Brook* retirea.]
Mr. Catutheirs said if he had been pre-icnt he
sliould have voted aguiu*t the expulsion of Mr.
Br**iks, believing that no offence to the Heue*- .had
been committed.
A long time elapc d before order was restored.
The roKdufejn censoring Messrs. Edimmdaon and
Keitt wa*pending when the House adjourned, alter
an ineffectual atiempt to table it—yea* ‘J6.nay* 111.
IN SENATE July 15.
Nothing of consequence transpired during the
morning lirmr.
The biff from the House, appro ilatiug fifty f!:ou-
Hind dollars t*. the construction of a road froin Fort
Itidgely, in Minesotu territory, to the South l*iu:s of
the Roekv Mountains, in Nebraska territory, wtis de
bated und passed.
Mr. Totimbs tesomed his remarks from yesterday
on the bill arnemdatory of the act to promote the
efliciency of the Navy, and was remarkably severe
in lii« censure of the late Naval Board.
Mr. Houston and others gave their views, when
the bill was amended boh? more effectually to ac
complish the obbject of restoring, through a court
of inquiry, such meritorious a* were ag
gt'h v.'d by tlie action ot the Naval 80-. rd—those re
ported on favorably to be rc* appointed by the Pres
cient and confirmed by the Senate.
The bill was then passed—yeas ’d7, nays 11, as
Yeas—Messrs. Adams, Bayard, Bell of Tenn.,
Benjamin, Biggs, Bigler, Broadhc&d, Brown, But
ler, Clayton, Coll a. ter, Dodge, Evan?, l ,v ssv-n
--den. Kish, Fitzpatrick, l oote, Forrester, Iverson,
James, Mallory, Pratt, Kehl, Sebaslain, Trumbull,
y'ulec— h*6.
Nays —Messrs. Bright, Douglas, Hale, Houston,
Hunter, Jones, of Teim., Mason, Pugh, Stewart,
Thompson, of Ky., Toombs—ll.
The Senate then adjourned.
HOUSE.
Tie-House proceeded to the consideration of the
resolution expr**seing disapprobation of the conduct
of M« . -rs. Kifuiundson and Keiit in connection with
the assault.
An ineffectual effort was made to have n vote
taken in the ease of each separately. In conse
quence of tliri failure the resolution was rejected—
yens 70, nays I go.
On motion of Mr. Campbell, of ( )hio,the vote was
recontddured, when lie offered a substitute for the
v .lution so ns t*» enable the House to pass on Mr.
Keiit and Mr. Kdmundson separately. He said if
.Mr. Keitt wis!n*d to be heard, he should not insist on
the previous question.
Mr. Millson made an unsuccessful appeal to Mr.
Campbell to withdraw the motion, wishing to occu
py several minutes in the discussion of the question
in its new u pect.
Mr. Campbell, of Ohio, replied if lie should yield
to the gentleman from Virginia, he must nccessari
ly give way to others. The subject had been dis
ctiHcod in ail its aspects. The substitute did not
change the principle of the original proposition.—
Much time had already been consumed ; the session
was far advanced auu the business of the House was
not transacted. Therefore lie insisted on the pre
vious question.
Mr. Letcher wished to say that in the new as
pect of the case, an effort was made to cut off de
bate.
Mr. Dunn called attention to the wording of the
substitute. The House was called upon to declare
disapprobation of “the said act ’ of Messrs. Keitt
and Edmundson. lie wanted to know to what the
weds “said act*’ had reference.
Under the operation of the previous ques.ion, the
resolution censuring Mr. Keitl was adopted; yeas
lOfi—nays 96.
The other resolution, censuring Mr. Klmnndson,
was rejected— yeas (id, nays 13(5.
Mr. Campbell, of Ohio, moved an amendment to
the preamble, to make it further appear that Mr.
K ilt attempted to prevent an officer of the Senate
from interfering to prevent the continuous blows
upon Mr. Sumner.
Mr. Dtum took exception to this amendment.—
The original preamble presented Mr. Keitt as a wit
ness, nothing more ; and on that ground the resolu
tion was predicated.
Mr. Campbell, of Ohio, to remove Mr. Dunn’s ob
jection, moved an amendment to the preamble, sim
ply striking out Mr. Edinundnon’s name, and letting
Nlr. Keitt’s stand.
The preamble was agreed to—yens 104, nays 83.
Mr. Keitt, said lie should ask the House to-mor
row to hear him in some matters, and that he should
endeavor not to violate Parliamentary propreitv.
The House then adjourned.
IN SENATE July IG.
Mr. Brown, from the committee on the District of
Columbia, reported a bill retroceding Georgetown
to Maryland.
The bill supplementary to the act amendatory of
the several acts respecting copyright, approved
July 3d, IS3I, was reported by Mr. Bayard, from
the committee on the Judiciary.
Mr. Seward hoped that it would be immediately
put upon its passage, as it was a bill of considerable
importance. The bill was then passed.
The bill fur the final adjudication of the questions
of the title to the swamp lands between private citi
zens and Louisiana was passed.
The Senate then resumed the consideration of
the bill to increase the efficiency of the army
the three million bill —mid Mr. Jones, of Ten
nessee, advocated it, replying to the objections
made by Mr. llale, when the bill was Inst under
consideration.
Mr. Jones said that tho appropriation was neces
sary in order to place the country in a proper stute
of defence. It was a peace measure, rather than a
war measure. What was our condition now? There
was not .ammunition enough on the whole Pacific
coast to tire ten rounds with the guns there ; and in
<mse of a war, there was not enough in the whole
country to lire.* twenty five rounds with all our guns.
NY lien he concluded," the bill was postponed until
Monday next, and the Senate went into Executive
Session. After several hours spent therein the
Senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
Mr. Keitt auiil it was not Lh purpose to widen any
bivuch or exasperate any feeling. He much pre
ferred the latter.
He vindicated South Carolina from the charges
made against her conduct in the revolution, saying
that throughout that period there was not a single
private from Massachusetts in that State.
He vividly depicted the suffering and patriotism
of the Carolinians, contending that the exploits of
Maasaohust Us in that struggle had been greatly ex
aggerated.
After replying to Mr. Burlingame, and making
some caustic remarks relative to Mnssaehusel ta, he
said that it was a little extraordinary that when a
great rigid was concerned,they heard nothing about
the constitution from ome men, but that that in
strument was invoked to uphold slan hr. He was
in the Senate when the assault was committed by
Mr. Brook*. lie knew that it would be com
mitted, unless an explanation and apology should
be made by Air. Sumner ; but as he had said on a
former occasion he said now, he knew not the
time when, or the place where the assault would
lu made, or where the explanation would be de
manded. Nor did he anticipate that the affair
would occur in the S imto Chamber. , J , lk* provoca
tion was given, nml he knew that when his col
league (Mr. Brooks) said he would do a thing, lie
would do it.
His (Mr. Keitt's) offence was.that he did not turn
iufonner : a eharncter which he characterized as
worthy of stern condemnation and disgust. Iu con
clusion, he said for the individual opinion of mem
lei's he eared nothing, but did care something for
the official opinion oi the House. He reprt-seated
nn n who lived on the battle plains which had been
aspersed by the Senator, (Suuiuer.) and he had sent
Jil> resignation to the Governor of Smith Carolina, to
take ei.ect at this time. [Applause iu the gMlcrioa,
naileries of ordertVom below.] Mauy friends ap
j roaelu dand shook Mr. iveitt bv the hand.
The House proceeded to the consideration of the
resolutions of the commit tee of Elections—that J. C.
Alien, ot Illinois, was not legally elected, and that
Mi. 15. Archer was legally elected, and is entitled io
his seat on this floor.
Air. \VasiibcMie,oi Maine, advocated the resolu
tion, and
Mr.. Elf. Alien, the sitting member, replied, in
hip “wu defence.
The t;u< stion will probably be taken up to-mor
row.
The House then myouniod.
IN SENA i E .July 17.
Mr. Toombs introduced a joint resolution that the
finding of the late Naval Board in the ease of Lieut.
Bartlett, was a in violation of the rights guaran
ty d to every citizen by the Constitution, and is
therefore utterly void ana of no effect. He said be
should call up the reootatimi at a convenient oppor
tunity.
T: V Senate then went into Executive session on
the Naval appointments.
The door* were opened at half-past er.e o'clock,
when the Senale proceeded to consider the bill to
repeal so in:-, K • f the act of March, ISm. as provi
des for the erection of an armorv iu the Citv of
Washington.
Aft* ■* debate the Scuaie adjourned.
HOU£E.
The House recoined the consideration of the rise
Union? of the committee of elections, declaring Mr
Ajtchcr. instead of Mr \K r. to have been elected
from tie seventeenth district ofl'MuoW.
Mr. Norton spoke iu favor of the resolutions, and
M - • - AIK a. Harris o: K im is. and Cadwahnlcr
Without taking the question, tin House adjourn
ed.
IN SENATE July IS.
Alh r passing a bill rt pealing the law authorizing
the i.o-l * t • . armory in Washington, the sm
ut* pnv.s .led to the consideration of private bit's.
T - S . Usevseed, without coining to a c.n
citision or*, the subnet. the bift ext eliding Obi-d-
Hi: ... •- : .!■ :! furl::* r. .fin; machine.
'• V • ~i the committee on Post Offices
~u l ; V «; S v- •' r-ii a bill rmvidmg for the
\t of postage on oil transient
‘ . *•! Moudav.
IT ‘ESH.
j 1 . .. • -.•!,•!*. casewa< resumed.
Mr Arched he - -t. • ; Mivsstd the House.
•1 . -r . .. •• •. •• \i r.-" voted on the re
' • ‘ 1 J.. 0* > T A.N -a • * m»t duly elected,
*•' . ,;t which was
‘ " i. \\ " B. Arrhir was
jy u . *• .. t r K-d to a seat from
. " ' -'K * , • District lEinoi?, was
i A..- a ‘ » the vote, but it
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Richhost>. July 17.—President Robertson
Humcd the chair at 11 o’clock, and called the Con
vention to order.
Delegates from eleven additional counties apj>ear
ed and took their seats.
Mr. Ma< hirland, from the committee on resolu
tion*, reported that they Were not yet ready to re
port, bn* hoped to be prepared to do so by 1 o’clock
in the afternoon. The Md Whigs were rot so ready
in preparing {’ vtforaa* as some other parties, and
now tea* the thermometer was at Mood heat, and
they had to proceed by stop uatoher. they must ask
a * i tie indulgence, ¥ with the hope otVag abl»- to
pf J ent ae < -p! able fcAohit i in the afterrfoon.
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milted to retire to perfect tlieir rej>ort.
There b-iug no buduess before fee Convention, Dr.
Xcrrc4l, us Uranic upwii, aj*d made a
brief and effective n*ldr*«r. Tlibtigh he approved
of * -me of ihe principles of the American party, be
i i 'U i preferred to .-Land test as an old line big. He
reterroa to ti.e canvass of I^lo—to the brag game
ihen rewsk-d lo by the Dein*K-ratB —Co iaeir Warm
advocacy of Martin Van Bnren, n Northern man
with Southern feeling —to his overwhelming
defeat by Gen. Han-won—end asserted that Mr.
L»uc; :iiii" v. i'*'W occupying a similar poeition to
th" on* - riien occupied by Van Buren. Mi. Kill
more had been tried and lound efficient and faithful,
-•.jin I*o w : L r« d that the people did not rise, as in
the ease of Mr Monroe, and re-eleet him by accla
maiion He referred to the embarrassed condition
of Lhe fiuances of the country —to the log-rolling sys
tem in behalf of internal improvements —to the
enormous taxes now imposed in Virginia and charged
tue Democratic party with bringing about these re
r*f*ail-. The General Government, the Southern
Democrats claimed, bad no power to make internal
improvements, and yet a Democratic Congress was
constantly voting away the public lands for the ben
efit of the new state*. The distribution act was
briefly reviewed, and the Democratic party charged
with keeping V irginia out of her shares of the pro
ceeds of the public iaiids. He next drew a parallel
between Fillmore and Buchanan. Jn 1850, under
‘he HdiuteUttution of Gen. Taylor, the country was
inju*t such a dhurocted otate as now. Providence
removed him from the throne, anil from that time,
under the guidance of Millard Fillmore, the troubled
waters began to c*diu, and during his administra
tion quiet was restored and the country rendered
prosperous. Honest, capable and faithful, he ha*
proved himself a friend to the Union and the Consti
tutiou, and deserves the cordial support of every pa
triot, North and South, East and West. How* was
it v. iiii Mr. Buchanan ? Had he not said iu his
speech on the Texas annexation question, thatslave
. / was a moral and political evil, but that he would
übmit to it under the belief that the slave* would
be run off into Mexico ? He reverted to his act* in
181‘J—to his course while Minister to England—aud
concluded with a warm and touching eulogy in be
half of Fillmore.
Marmaduke Johnson, Esq., was called out aud
addressed the Convention briefly. lie alluded to
tin: wooing of the Democratic press to win the old
Whigs over to their side, ar.d failing in that, to the
<• i <• abuse that had been heaped upon them for
daring to stand up for their political rights. lie
c tiled upon the Whigs to go forth and labor zealous
ly in tlieir cause—to show to the people’the ground*
upon which the Democracy claim to t>e the peculiar
ft iends of the South —*tand to their arms in do
fence of tin Constitution and Union. All would re
member the lamentations of the Democrats at the
decapitation of u few Whigs by the American par
ty, but who had forgotten the merciless proscription
the Whigs had .suffered at the hands of that pros
criptive party. Their hypocritical con tings remin
d.. i him of a brazen strumpet standing in a public
place and proclaiming he own virtues. Their posi
tion on the subject oi internal improvements was
vascilluting, inconsistent with thejr professions and
their platforms—voting for or against it, as best sui
ted their party purposes. In Virginia and the South
tin y are opposed to internal improvement bv the
general government—at the North and North-West
they favor them. Indeed, their twistings and turn
ings are so continuous, that they
Leaving the matter still in doubt,
Whether the snake that made the track;
Was corniug home or going back.”
Mr. J. adverted to the pure, patriotic and states
manlike administration of Millard Fillmore, and
concluded by hoping that the old Whigs would nail
his Hog to their staff, und under the wave of its
broad fold, he would be willing to draw the sword,
throw away the scabbard, and take his last look at
the sun.
Mr. John R Kilby, of Fansemond, was next call
ed out, and addressed the meeting. He was an old
line Whig and nothing else. He preferred Fillmore,
not only because he had been nominated by others,
but because he was his first choice; because lie lmd
proved himself a national man, und had had the
j ntriotism to stand up in the midst of friends and
denounce their fanaticism. He would not run a
comparison between Fillmore and Buchanan, but
should like to be pointed to one great measure origi
nated by Buchanan. lie declared that lie was in for
the cause, and that he would go into the fight with
the hope of securing the election of Millard Fill
more.
Mr. F. B. Deane, of Lynchburg, was called on,
but excused himself from speaking.
Mr. John A. Carter, of Loudoun responded to a
call, and declared that the Whigs of Loudoun were
now where they had ever been, and he felt it to be
an honor to tell the meeting that they were now as
ever, firm to the great principles which had ever ac
tuated the Whig party. lie believed that the prin
ciples which actuated the Whig party were the same
which actuated him who was first in war, first in
peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen. lie
believed that if George Washington were alive, he
would now be found acting with the old Whig party.
Keferring to the portrait of Henry Clay on his right,
he asked—“suppose the sage of Ashland, who now
li-_*c beneath the clods of the valley, but who will
ever live in the hearts of his couutrymen, were here,
and were asked who you should support, Buchanan
or Fillmore, which do you suppose would be his
choice / You a!! know he would say. vote for Mil
lard r illinore.” Then turning to his left and point
ing to the portrait of Daniel Webster, said, “and who
do you .suppose would that man, whose heurt is big
enough to encompass the whole Union, tell you to
support ? Why, Millard Fillmore—the public ser
vant who lias been tried and found faithful. Mr. C.
continued his remarks in behalf of the Whig party,
aud wound up with a well timed peroration on the
patriotism of the conservative Whigs of the North.
John M. Speed, Esq. responded to a call made
upon him, and criticised the course pursued by the
Democratic press in relation to the old Whig party
—to the efforts made to bring the leaders into rich
fields and green pastures of the Democratic party,
where the highest offices are offered them, as well as
an equal share of spoils, lie alluded to the attack
made in a city newspaper upon the Convention,
and declared that the object of the present .assem
blage was to organize the Whig party and do battle
in behalf of the country. They were not to sup
port any extremes, either for the South or the North,
but to take u middle ground. They had no candi
date in the field. Two of the candidates now be
fore the people were Democrats—Fremont and Bu
chanan—and one was an American candidate.—
Fremont is not to be mentioned here. \\ hicli of the
other two, then, are we to support. .Limes Buchanan
the supporter of squatter sovereignty—or Millard
Fillmore, a man who has already proved himself
true to the South and the country ? He reviewed,
with much ability, the past history of the Whig and
Democratic parties—urged the Whigs to do battle
in the present contest for their old leader and friend
—and argued to prove that Buchanan was no friend
of the South. His remarks were listened to with
much attention, and were frequently applauded.
On motion, the Convention adjourned until five
o’clock, P. M.
Afternoon Session.
The Convention reassembled ats o’clock, and
war called to order by President Robertson, who an
nounced his readiness to proceed to business.
Win. 11. Macfarland, Esq,, from the Committee
on resolutions, announced his readiness to present
their report, which he prefaced with the remark that
the committee were unanimously of the opinion that
the perpetuity of our institutions, and of the Union
itself, would depend upon the influence exerted
by the Whig party hereafter. He read the report
as follows:
We, who are here assembled, whigs, and the re
presentative* of whigs, are painfully convinced of
the necessity of consolidating the national whig party
and of its unremitted vigilant e and activity, if the
Union is to be perpetuated and the Cgnstitution
and laws upheld and preserved. There lias not been
a ’ ime when the influence and exertions of the party
v.vre more needed, and never before has it appear
ed to hesitate or waiver. On all past occasions it
has entered the field, eager to bear the heat and bur
then of the day, on the slightest appeal to its sense
of public duty: but now, when the country is con
vulsed by intemperate sectional contentions, and
violence anil anarchy, vituperation and abuse,
threaten the subversion of public order, for the first
time the paity is missed at the advanced posts it has
been accustomed to occupy and ennoble. It was the
proud distinction of the whig party to have render
ed invaluable services to the country when out of
power, as in, by the influence of its sound, moderate
aud conservative views in rebuking and restrain
ing party bigotry. It was the whig party which
composed the ngitation, and restored the fraternal
relations of the Union, in former instances of civil
fueds, exasperated to fierce intolerance. Nor has
the dominant party refused to seize upon whig pro
positions as its own, regardless of having denounced
them, when their adopt on would have inured to
the credit of their authors. Generous and pure
aims, such as those which have characterised the
whig party, have a power over selfish and crooked
com -!s beyond the influence which is found in
mere numbers.
The memories of the past, the hopes of the future
and the obligations of the present, condemn the
thought of disbanding the Whig party, and of any
remission of its untiring exertions. The strength of
the party is in its principles ; and as these depend
not on acceptance for their truth, neither has the
party faltered in rs exertions through fears of dis
uppointment or defeat. Its maxim has been that it
was better to be right than to succeed.
Tuv immediate and practical questiou now to be
determined, respects the course or position of the
Whig party in the approaching election. In the de
cision of tins question, there should not be, in our
judgi.ic i.t, any hesitation or dissent. The prevailing
distractions, the uneasiness pervading the public
mind, disaffection amounting even to rebellion, un
reclaimed after mouths of insurgent defiance, the
denunciation and intolerance winch have invaded
the rational legislature, the feuds, strifes and sec
tional hostility which cast their appalling shadows
before them,* indicate with unerring certainty the
remedy which is required. The services of a na
tional chief magistrate—of one knownfor liis mode
ration ; his indexible official impartiality; his equal
and impurturbable attachment to each and every
section ; his intrepidity iu adheriug to his convic
tions, and patient fidelity in arriving at them : his
veneration i< r the constitution as the object which
l.ls love and duty both constrain him to defend.—
With such a man at the head of the administration,
of whom the world has had witness that such in truth
he was. from having once discharged its high du
tie . to the extinguishment of seetioual jealousies,
the restoration of the reign of good feeling, the main
tenance of the honor of the Government, and the
ad ranee nent of its v= t Ifiirc, r coafidi nee, good feel
la su
trus . crimination and intolerance;
R, <,rh; /, Tiiut having u<t agency in the nomina
tion of candidates for tliv Presidency, and declining
now to make any nomination of their own, the
W: gs of Virginia are left free to select among the
candidates already before the public, but iu making
their selection they consult alone their principles
nut I their duty, and by no means merge themselves
iu that party whose candidate they may adopt, liut
thvv v. :.l on'al: on asions maintain and preserve their
time honored and distinctive principles as known to
the country and attested by their history.
0. That regarding the new party, absurdly styliug
itself Republicans, as wholly committed to a sec
tional issue and engaged iu a crusade against ac
knowledged constitutional rights and the union of
the States, it is needless to say more of its candidate
that! that his pretentions are ui.worihv of being
scrutinized and unfit to be couriered in a national
contest.
3. That locking to the publicly given by
the Democratic party iu its nomination of President
Pierce that ** ah agitation ou the suljecl of slavery
iu Congress a..J elsewhere should cease.*’ and the
re iteration of t'.ai pledge iw the Pics idem himself
ii Kis inaugural address ani* in his first meteage to
Congress, «t was not to have been expected that his
administi ation woukihav - eucour<«geu this agiiattou
by giving ii.- a;.. ;jauce acd patronage to tueagi
taioiv, ami by disturbing for mere party ends, com
promises mat had .-•ng preserved tue peace and har
mony of the country.
4. Thai a party whose administration of the go
vernment. from iu accession to power has been
characterized by violated ple-Igt - and riagrant
abuses in its domestic policy • and by blunders and
dilticulties in iu foreign relations, reducing the
country from peace and happiness to a state of dis
tractiu’n, animosity auu vio»ence unexampled iu our
aimaia Justly forfeits the confidetoe of all conserva
tive men.
f>. That no Whig attached to his principles and
jealous of the lienor of his cowitry. can coijsisteutly
> ap;#oitthe car.uiiateof th» party, especially while
ii* addition to other v. eighty objection* on the ques-
Ikm of our t emit ort*>i rights, wo find aim sustained
at the .Vfft as the adv4>cate of “squatter sovereign -
ty, ’ and at tine Ids doctrine of the absolute
iM*w*-r of Congress over slavery in the territories,
has io be met by explanations and gkwts asuutena
kea* they ar* aaceptabie ? aau while, too, he is
r<. 'hhis!t*ie tor the doctrinuof the Osterul manifesto,
• pugnaiit to every sciitimt-ut of national lioikw aisi
K*.ality. and calculated to commit the country to a
car* er ot t»»re:gn gjxrrriWMiir that must result ui de
faming public tncmis and prov oking war with other
not urns.
6. That the Whip* of Virginia having cordially
accepted the compromises of 1850 as necessary con
cessions to conflicting views and interests; and be
ing opposed to the renewal of the agitation of the
question to which those compromises relate, will
now resist any repeal or modification of the Kansas-
Nebraska Act as calculated to renew and inflame
the strife that at thistinu endangers the rights and
the Union of the States.
7. That convin-ed that in Millard Fillmore, the
qualities and endowments are combined which ,iu
the foregoing preamble are held indispensable in a
Chief Magistrate ot the preao. t alarming crisis, and
believing that these resolute <l* express his opinions
and that their principles wili control fcis administra
tion, if elected to the Presidency, the members of
this*Convention do not hesitate to recommend him
to the choice of the nation, and. while they disclaim
ail iuconliun to adopt the principle* of another par
ty. earnestly invoved their bretbreff throughout the
State, to surrender whatever exceptions they may
take, to the quarter, whence his nomination pro
ceeded, and to yield him the active and zealous sup
port to which b** is entitled from the model ho has
given of a truly national administration.
8. That this'Convention, relying on the efforts of
the Whig parry oi’ the Nation for the preservation of
the Union and the Constitution, earnestly invite
iheir brethren in other States to unite with them in a
National Convention in the city of Baltimore on the
third Wednesday of September next for the purpose
of embodying and rallying a great National Party,
North an i South, East and \\ eet, so as to be pre
pared now and at all future times to exert that
wholesome control over public affairs, ever due to
moderate and conservative counsel? : and to this
end, t! at this Convention w II proceed on iti own
part to appoint fflccn delegates and two alternates
for each to represent the Whigs of the State in such
Convention.
9. Xhat the President of this Convention appoint
a Central Executive Committee of thirteen , whose
duty it shall be, by correspondence and otherwise,
to promote the organization and the activity of the
\\ lug party ia this State; and that the delegations
from the respective counties be requested to give to
the Chairman of the Central the names
of such persons as they would recommend for the
active duties of the campaign.
Mr. Johnß. Baldwin, of Augusta, desired to see
the hues between the Whigs and American parties
more clearly drawn. He was now a Whig—Lad al
ways been a Whig, and nothing else but a Whig—
and as such was opposed to proscription on account
of birth-place or relgion. Such, he believed, were
the views of the old Whig party, and he tlireupou
offered a resolution, expressing his sentiments, which
was afterwards withdrawn, on the coinmittee’s
amending the 7th resolution in their report, to suit
his wishes—Messrs. Macfariand, Pendleton, Bald
win, Scott, Bell, Johnson, and others having dis
cussed the subject at length.
Mr. Wood Bouldin could not agree to the third
resolution as reported by the committee, and desired
a separate vote taken upon it.
Messrs. Goggiu and Scott advocated the report of
the committee.
Tue vote was taken on the third resolution and it
was carried.
The preamble add resolutions was then put to
vote, and they were adopted.
Mr. Pendleton moved that the President of the
Convention be added to the list of delegates to the
National Convention; and the question being put
to vote, was unuuimously carraied.
John M. Speed, Esq., offered the following resolu
tion, which was adopted :
Resolved, That the President of thl3 Convention
be instructed to communicate a copy of the forego
ing preamble and resolutions to Mr. Fillmore, and to
request him to accept of the endorsement by this
Convention of his nomination to ihe Presidency of
the United States.
On motion of Mr. Macfariand, the President was
instructed to appoint the committees called for by
the above resolutions.
A vote of thanks was made to the President and
officers of the Convention, for the faithful discharge
of the duties imposed on them.
The President then addressed the Convention
briefly, and congratulated the delegates upon the
harmony that hud prevailed, and the noble leader
they had placed at the head of their columns. lie
concluded by urging the members to go to their
homes and labor unceasingly for the man of their
choice.
The Convention adjourned sine die , with three
hearty cheers for Millard Fillmore.
From the Savannah Republican.
Mr. Fillmore iind hi** Ailiiiiiii.**tration, by the
President of the Cincinnati Convention.
As the friends of Mr. Fillmore are expected to
make the very best exhibition possible of his charac
ter and past services, their testimony will very
justly be taken with many grains of allowance.—
Fortunately, they are not the only witnesses to the
exalted claims of their candidate upon the Ameri
can people. His political enemies can be brought
to the stand and be made to pronounce in favor of
his high personal character, ids brilliant states
manship, and his patriotic administration of the go
vernment.
We propose to avail ourselves of those witnesses
from time to time, and to publish their voluntary
testimony, rendered at a time when there were no
Presidents to elect and they could afford to be
honest.
The first witness whom we shall call to the stand
is the Hon. John E. Ward, President of the late Cin
cinnati Democratic Convention.
On the 21st of April, 1854, and after the close of
bis glorious administration, Mr. Fillmore made a
visit to the city of Savannah. He was met at the
depot of the Central Railroad, by the citizens, almost
en masse, and the entire military of the city, under
the gallant command of Col. A. It. Lawton, Demo
cratic Representative from Chatham in the last
Legislature. A Democratic Board of Aldermen
were the first to meet him, and having landed from
the cars, the Hon. John E. Ward, then Mayor of
the city, and since President , as aforesaid, address
ed him as follows :
“ Mu. Fillmore : —With unfeigned pleasure I
perform the duty assigned me of welcoming you to
the city of Savannah. Whilst the events which
mark your administration of the government are of
too recent date to be discussed without arousing
passions, which on this occasion should be hushed to
rest, we must all remember that those high and
solemn trusts were not assumed by you in the sun
shine of our prosperity. It was a dark and eventful
period in the history of our government “ when the
brave began to fear the power of man, and the
pious to doubt the favor of God.” Dark and fear
ful were the clouds that hung on our horizon, vio
lent the factions that agitated our land, and men
seemed to recken not how wildly raged the storm, so
that in its fury, it upturned the institutions of the
South.
“ It was your lot to breast that storm, and bid its
muttering* reuse, and to do that you must turn away
from the crowds of flatterers to tread the lonely
path of duty. With your robes of office as with a
panoply of ire, you wrapped yourself from all the
prejudices of earlier years, and from, all the tempta
tions which (hen surrounded you. “ Unternfcd
by threats , unawed by clamors , you held in your
steady coursepreserved the Constitution of your
country, gave /ware to the land we lore, and repose
to the institutions which we cherish, illustrating to
the world that “ peace had its victories no less re
nowned than wars.'' It is lit and proper, now, when
you have laid aside place and power and patronage
that the affections of a grateful people should follow
you to //our home, ami linger around you in pour
retirement. As the constituted authorities of the
city of Savannah, we welcome you within her limits
—as the representatives of the people, we welcome
you to our hospitalities,—as a portion of her citi
zens, we welcome you to our homes and our hearts."
Such an endorsement, breathing *rutli in every
syllable and line, should arrest the pen and close the
lips of every Democratic traducerof Fillmore in the
land.
On the day following, Mr. Fillmore was honored
with an aquatic excursion, during the festivities of
which, the same eloquent eulogist offered the follow
ing sentiment:
'*Onr Distinguished finest: Raised up by Provi
dence to be the ruler of a nation, he scorned to be
eome the leader of a faction.”
To this toast three cheers were proposed by Solo
mon Cohen, Esq., the present Democratic Postmas
ter of Savannah'
Mr. Ward and Mr. Cohen, however, were not
the only witnesses that came forward and volun
teered their homage on that occasion. Several
other distinguished Democrats were present and
emulous in their praise, and among them the Hon.
,'ohn C. Nicol, Judge of the U. S. District Court,
and a Democrat of the adamantine, thrice rectified
school, who offered the following :
“The Chief Magistrate who, up>n retiring from
office could say, ‘louly claim for myself to have ac
ted honestly, disinterestedly, and with the sole view
of restoring the harmony of the country which gave
me birth.' ” (Loud applause.)
We close, for the present, with the single remark
that, from that day to this Mr. Fillmore has been a
private citizen, lias held no office, and taken no
part in public affairs, and yet he is now denoun
ced as an enemy to the South and totally un
worthy of public confidence. Oh shame, where is
thy blush!
Texas Items.
The Galveston News, of the 12th inst., says : We
have received from a gentleman in Orange county
a full account of the several murders and lawless
acts which have recently been perpetrated there.—
The chief portion of the disreputable residents have
left the county ; others are in prison, and a few
have suffered the extreme penalty of the lynch
code. Law and order, according to our corres
pondent, have been fully vindicated, and peace
again prevails.
A correspondent of the Galveston Civilian, writ
ing from Madison, Orange county, under date of
Julyßth,says :
(>ur community have just been aroused by the an
nouncement of the arrest of three desperadoes from
this county, at Jasper court-house. They were
aiders and abettors in the murder of Deputy.—
Their names are Bill Blake, Henderson Ashworth,
and Martin Stewart. A warrant hud beeu sent for
tlu-ir arrest to Jasper. They submitted apparently
with ease, knowing that resistance would be useless.
In their company were twelve other desperadoes
coming down to this country on business. They
prudently turned back, after they saw how tilings
were. The prisoners will be delivered over to a
special constable from our county who will take
care of them.
The Goliad Express says that the woods in the vi
cinity of Refugio have beeu stripped of their leaves
so completely as to present the appearance of mid
winter. The cause of this destruction is the com
mon striped caterpillars which have appeared in
such vast numbers as to conceal the ground under
the trees.
The Houston Telegraph says that on Monday, the
7th inst., the family of Mr. ‘ William Hogan were
poisoned, excepting Mr. IL, who was absent from
home at dinner time, and his oldest daughter, who
was at school. Mrs. 11., three children and three
negroes, the cook and two field hands, immediate
ly after dinner were taken- with severe vomiting.
Dr. Blake was sent for, who called in Dr. Barker,
and they so far succeeded in relieving them that
they are out of all danger. Arsenic was found to
have been in their food. It i 3 not known as yet
whether the poisoning wrs accidental o intentional.
The Galveston Civilan, of the 12th, says :
The weather in this region is dry and hot, and,
although good health prevails without interruption,
business is necessarily languid, as compared with
the other seasons of the vear ? but there is no pros
pect of that almost entire cessation of operations
which has sometimes prevailed.
Upon the whole, the reports of the growing crop
ofcotton in this State are favorable, although, as is
usual, some neighborhoods or even counties, have
suffered from various causes.
Equestrian Statue ok Washington. —A let
ter from Munich, dated June 12, says : Mr. Craw
ford's grand and spirited equestrian statue of Wash
ington, for Virginia, is entirely finished. The great
est interest lias been taken here in the casting of
this colossal work, and the foundry was visited by
the King and yueeu of Bavaria, and the Empress
of Austria. After the visit, the King sent to the
hotel, requesting Mr. Crawford to come to th>?
palace. During the audience, his Majesty said that
he could not allow the artist to leave Munich with
out expressing to him personally the great pleausure
be had in seeing the statue, and his hope that it
would arrive safely at its destination. Mr. Craw
l'd: d is chasing his an angements for forwarding the
statue, and will leave in a day or two for Paris, en
route tor America.
The Orangeburg Southron, of the 16th inst. says:
*• We ie&rn with great regret that the late freshet In
the Congnree has been productive of much damage
to all c4P.ti ration in the swamp, and has swept away
a iaige portion of the extensive dam of Mr. F.
Cooner, ?o well known to our citizens, from the pro
tracted and fierce litigation to which it gave rise in
our courts. It is to be hoped that rumor has exag
gerated the extent of the injury sustained. The
energy and enterprise necessajy for the accomplish
ment of works of improvement on so large a scale
as that of Mr. Coouer, are too rarely exhibited
amone our agriculturists, and we should regret not
only the individual los? sustained by a destruction
of tlie work, bnt also, the discouragement from simi
lar enterprises on the part of our people, which
would result from it.'*
The London Cfystal Palace. —At the Crystal
Palace in Loudon, when the fountains are in full op
ei a* ion. they have 11.788 jets playing, and the quan
ta! v of wa!:?r displayed simultaneously in them, is
about 12u,4i00 gallons per minute.
The cholera is still raging in the villages in Vene
zuela. The D atch Colonial Sec retary from Curacoa
is one of its victims.
There are now 49% petitions on the table of the
English Commons ilouse, against opening the
British Museum on Sundays, signed by WiP,I7S
WEEKLY
Cjjrmuclc & Jkntinel.
AUGUSTA, GA
WEDNESDAY XOKMNG JII.Y 2:1, 1 556.
NATIONAL CANDIDATES
FOR PRESIDENT.
MILLARD FILLMORE.
Oi' New York.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT,
ANDREW J. DONELSOIV,
Os Temieo.ee.
ET.ECTtFRS run THE STATE AT I.AKI.E.
WM. H. CRAWFORD, of Terrell.
HEXJ. H. HILL, of Troop.
AT.TERNATES FOS THE STATE AT LARGE.
F. S. BARTOW. „f Chatham.
Dr. H. V. M. MILLER, of Floyd.
ELECTORS FOR THE DISTRICTS.
Ist Dirt —WM. LAW, of Chatham.
y.J Dirt.—WM. M. BROWN, of Marion.
3d Dirt.—Washington poe, of Bibb.
4th Dirt —E. Y. HILL, of Troup.
sth Diet.—GEO. W. GORDON, of Whitfield.
fith Dirt.—C. PEEPLES, of Clark.
7th Diet.—E. H. BAXTER, ot'Hancock.
Bth Dirt.—A. R. WRIGHT, of Jefferson.
ALTERNATES FOR THE DISTRICTS.
Ist Dirt—A. H HANSELL, of Thomas.
Sd Dirt.—RICHARD SIMMS, of Decatur.
3d Dirt.—K. G CAKINESS, of Monroe.
4th Dist.—B. H. OVERBY, of Fulton.
sth Diet —J K. PARROTT, of Cass.
fith Dist.—H. P BELL, of Forsvth.
7th Dist.—JOSHUA HILL, of Morgan.
Bth Dist.—LAFAYETTE LAMAR, of Lincoln.
Southern Cultivator*
The August number of this well know* Agricultu
ral monthly is already on our table. It abounds, ns
usual, in valuable practical information —the re
corded experience of the best Farmers, Planters,
Fruit Growers, Stock Kaisers and scientific Agri
culturists of the country. The following are among
the leading articles of present number:
Plantation Economy.— Work for the Month,
very full aud copious ; Cotton, different modes of
Culture : Level Culture: Shade and Pea Vines,
&>c.; ltea Clover and Pasturage ; Culture and Pre
servation of the Sweet Potatoe; Cotton Seed—how
to apply it as Manure ; Bermuda Grass ; The past
and present condition of the Negro ; The Oil from
Cotton Seed ; Agricultural Income of the United
States : The Oregon Pea ; Sweet Potatoes. See.;
Wyandot Corn; Practical and Scientific, vs. “Book
Farming,” *Scc.; Clover in the South—letter irom
Mr. Croom ; Cast -Iron Cotton Screws ; Slave pro
perty in the United States, See.
Stock Raising.— Distemper in Horses and Hogs;
Emasculation of Horses and Mules; Report on
Mules; Colic in Horses; Horses iu Austria, «Scc.
Editorial. —Woodland Female College ; Hints
for the Season ; Hints on Wheat Culture; Water
Proof Clothing for Negroes, in Cotton Picking; The
Educational Wants of Georgia; Irish Potatoes and
Stable Manure; Cotton for 1855; The “Ivy Green;”
Poinological Meeting at Athens, Ga., &c.
Fruit and Horticulture.— Barren Strawberry
Plants ; The Curoulio—An Effectual Preventive
Against; Instruction on the Art of Wine Making -.
Fruit Growing in the South ; Origin of the Cataw
ba Grape; Wine Growing in France, &c.
Terms—only $1 per year. Back numbers and
volumes supplied. Address
WM. S. JONES, Augusta, Ga.
Georgia for Fillmore.
Everything tends to convince us that Fillmore
will carry Georgia by a sweeping majority, if his
friends but do their duty. The enthusiasm with
which his name is welcomed on all sides would be
alone a guarantee of success, but we have other
proofs of his increasing popularity. Men who have
stood aloof from the political organizations of the
day, are coining forward on all sides to record then
confidence for him. The young who are eager to
enter the arena, take pride in becoming the sup
porters of one whose name is a sound of welcome to
their ears. The large body of men who recognize in
Mr. Fillmore the great exponent of American sen
timent, and who remember with gratitude the pa
triotism and sound statesmanship he revealed on
every occasion during his Presidency, are happy in
welcoming ho many new recruits to his standard.
The personal unpopularity of his Democratic rival,
his cold Northern disposition, and his time-serving,
unmanly career, are also causes which naturally
strengthen Mr. Fillmore in the South. Between
the patriot and statesman, and the politician and
trickster, what warm-hearted man can hesitate in
making a choice 1
We were rejoiced to witness so noble a rally of
the men of Richmond county us tilled our City Hall,
and thronged the entrance way and steps on Tues
day evening, on the occasion of the American
Meeting. The resolutions that were unanimously
passed will be found elsewhere. The plan of form
ing Fillmore Clubs in each ward of the city, and
in each district in the county is an excellent one, as
it will enable the various friends of the cause to co
operate more readily together. We could but com
pare, as we listened to the heart-stirring addresses of
the eloquent speakers, Messrs. Jackson, Collier
and Gibson, the enthusiasm of the hearers with the
cold and feeble utterances of the men who assem
bled some ten days since in the same Ilall to ratify
Mr. Buchanan’s nomination. Then, although the
night was of the warmest, it seemed as though the
listeners fancied they were in an ice vault, and posi
tively refused to be thawed on any consideration;
now there was genuine enthusiasm, and cheers that
rose so rapidly one upon the other, that they must
have sounded in neighboring streets as one long
volley.
The speeches were capital. They told of the
merits of the American cause and the American
candidates; the miserable shortcomings of Demo
cracy ; the dangers that beset the country ; the mis
chief caused by men of wavering mind in ouch a
crisis; the brave and honest stand that every true
American is now making, and the bright prospect of
a genuine triumph for Fillmore and the Union in
November. Judge Gibson dwelt in felicitous words
upon the career of Millard Fillmore ; his brave
struggles with poverty in youth, and his faithful de
votion to his country in all his public life. To be
lieve evil of such a man was to be evil one’s self.
His life was a pattern to all, and in choosing him as
our President we could not do amiss. The enthusi
asm awakened in Augusta will spread to every sec
tion of our grand old State, and make victory cer
tain.
The Parry Hack.
There are men who pass through life apparently
with but the one object in view of showing what a
libel on humanity they can become. They are
time-serving, officious, truckling popularity-mongers,
who recognise no creed in their hearts, but promise
anything with their tongues. They are superficially
taught to look to the weathercock ns their guide;
if it point northward they become very northerly in
speech; if it point southward, they will vow the
south has a peculiar charm for them. These wor
shippers of the rising sun are always miserable to.
wards the close of their days, when the veil that bus
covered them is being rent off, and others see them,
not as they have feigned to be, but ns they really
are. We can conceive no more unhappy creature
than one of these in his latter days; unless it be the
man who still fondly clings to him, even when by
so doing he parts from his self-respect.
The old hack, Buchanan, when he was trotted
out of the Cincinnati stables last month by his keep
ers, was declared by them to be sound in limb and
body, and with wind sufficient to enable him to run
through every State in the Union. They looked in
to his mouth, and swore there was not a federal tooth
loft ; they stated that every drop of blood in his
veins was Democratic; that the pastures on which
he had fed in the North were admirably adapted for
the Southern stomach; that Ostend chaff—a very
cheap commodity—had increased his size ; that he
cculd stand even on a rotten platform, run in har
ness with great docility, and never kick “ against
the pricks.’ They sought to conceal the fact that
he had ever been owned by a squatter sovereign,
or that he would ride over the constitution of his
masters on the first favorable opportunity.
But the attempt to palm this worn out hack upon
the people as a gallant steed, has been a signal fail
ure. Instead of becoming the favorite in the field,
the odds were against him, immediately the truth
was made patent tliat in the past he had never been
known to run a straig itlorward race, that he had
dodged at the comers, had often thrown his rider—
had always on important occasions sought to bar
gain with the backers of his antagonist, and that he
was particularly vicious when brough on Southern
ground.
liow short-winded he has really been, can be
proved by the difficulty his friends experience in
whipping him through any one State. It was cruel
to eater him for the Union stakes at a time when it
required competitors of the first mettle. Even now'
it would be well for his backers if they would with
draw him from the contest. Under whatever colors
he may appeal - it is impossible they can prove win
ning colors. The favorite is already in the field, he
has before gained the highest honors, and with the
nation's support now again protfered to him. he
will once more be the victor. Let the old hack,
Buchanan, be trotted back into his stable at
Wheatland. ___
Fearful Railroad Accident.
Tut Mail train from Savannah and Macon, due in
this city at 3 o’clock yesterday morning, did not ar
rived until A o'clock in the afternoon, in conseqence
of an accident which occurred to the train on the
Central Road. It appears that as the train was pro
ceeding at a brisk pace on Wednesday night, soon
after in o'clock, and when within a short distance
of the 130 mile post, the 'Engine McAfpin , and two
passenger cars, containing about thirty persons,
were thrown into the culvert, a distance of fifteen
feet. The accident was caused through the rains
having made the earth give way in this place. A
scene of great confusion ensued, and it was a con
siderable time before the amount of damage could
be fully ascertained. A young man named Baker,
who acted as fireman, and whose parents reside in
Macon, was killed on the spot ; and Mr. Hall, the
Engineer, and a fireman from North Carolina, whose
name w e could not learn, were found to be very se
riously if net dangerously injured. All the passen
gers fortunately escaped with a few bruises. A
doctor was sop in attendancei and under bis care the
two wounded men wore conveyed to the nearest
station. There was great apprehens.on experienced
in our city during the whole of yesterday morning,
as it was generally believed that an accident far
more disastrous in its results had happened.
It is “Squatter Sovereignty !”—The N. Y.
National Democrat, a Buchanan organ, endorses
fully toe squatter sovereignty doctrine of its leader.
It says:
•‘The decision of the question (of slavery) is legal
ly and properly in the hands of the people of the
Territory , an-l not in that of Congress; and such
we believe will be the verdict of the people.”
More Democrats on the Wing. —Mayor Ste
vens, of Buffalo, elected as a Democrat by 1,000
majority is a member of the Fremont Club of that
city; three of the present Democratic Aldermen are
also members.
Fillmore in Alabnmn.
We have the most gratifying assurances of the en
thusiasm everywhere beiug aroused in Alabama.
A correspondent writing us from North Alabama,
says:
•Fillmore is gaining strength in. North Alabama.
Many who thought at first they would vote for Bu
chananwill now go for Fillmore. Mr. Fillmore will
continue to gain from tins. Our cry is ; Up, Sam,
and at them J” The Constitutional and Union men
will rally to his support.
“The American party of the Valley will hold a
a ratification meeting at Decatur on the 26th of
July.”
Ci.kmens in the Field. —Hon. Jere Clemens,
says the Huntsville Independent, who has been
spending two or three months in the cities of Wash
ington, Philadelphia, aud New York, has retained
to his home among us, hi excellent health. He
brings glowing accounts of the prospects of Fillmore
aud Donelsou, and confidently predicts their trium
phant election in November.
It will be seen by the following card from Mr.
C., that he is now going into the canvass in earnest.
The announcement will be hailed with gladness by
the American party throughout the country : for it
is known that he is fully able to do our cause justice
before the people.
Hon. E. R. Wallace, Elector for this district
will perhaps address the people on the same occa
sion.
Huntsville, July 10, 1856.
I will address the citizens of Madison county, at
the Court House in Huntsville, on Saturday* the
10th inst.
Time will be divided with Gen. Walker, Demo
cratic and anti-Know Nothing Elector for this end
ot the State.
Gov. Chapman aud Col. Asklen are also invited
to attend, as I intend to comment with some free
dom upon the Cincinnati Convention and platform.
To eitiier or both of them, a fair portion of time will
be allotted, reserving thirty minutes for my own
conclusion. * Jerk Clemens.
That will do for the present for North Alabama—
let us now turn to Middle and East Alabama and
88e what the signs are there. The following dis
patch shows where Judge Shortridgk stands aud
what is the state of the political thermometer in that
section:
Selma, July 15, 1556.
We had a glorious Fillmore and Donelsou meet
ing hist evening. Judge Shortridge (late American
candidate for Governor) presided and made a stir
ring speech.
Pel ham and others also spoke. The meetiug was
large and very enthusiastic, and decided iu favor of
having a Stale Mass Meeting at Selina. (A gen
tleman representing the Executive State Commit
tee, was present, to confer on this subject with our
Belma friends.)
All right in tills section !
The subjoined extracts from the Montgomery
Ufatl afford abundant evidence of the public pulse iu
that section :
American Rally at Haynxyille. —There is a
Fillmore and Donelsou Rally at Hayneville, in
Lowndes to day. Thomas 11. Watts is* one of the
speakers there.
Mobile Rally. —The Fillmore and Douelson
Rally, for the city of Mobile, occurs to-morrow.
Dont we wish we could be there, friend News !
Fillmore Rally at Loachapoka. —There is to
be a Grand Rally at Loachapoka, on the Railroad,
second Thursday in August. It will be such a Rally
as Macon and Tallapoosa will be proud of—for the
latter county will be largely represented there.
Chambers and Tallapoosa. —Messrs. B. B. Me-
CrawandJ.il. Moon-field have become proprie
tors of the Chambers Herald, and give abundant
evidence of ability to make it useful in the cause of
Americanism.
We have received a very coi dial invitation to a
Muss Meeting of the friends of Fillmore and Donel
sou, to be held at Dudley ville, 81st July inst., for
the counties of Chambers aud Tallapoosa. It is one
of the meetings we shall try to attend, for it is bound
to be a rouser !
Choctaw County. —We are much pleased to
qear cheering news from Choctaw. Sxuatter Sove
reignty is said to be very unpopular there. Good
for Choctaw! It isn’t getting very popular any
where.
The older I grow, the more inclined 1 AM TO
be what is called a States Rights Man.— Janies
Buchanan's speech on the admission of Arkansas ,
in 1836.
The Savannah Georgian keeps the above extract
at the head of its columns, for the purpose, we sup
pose, of commending the old Federalist and vacila
ting time-serving political intriguer, James Bu
chanan, to the States Rights men of the South. The
thing won’t take. No true States Rights man—one
who is a States Rights man from principle, can be
seduced into his support. Such things may catch
the spurious creatures, who profess to be States
Rights men and the spoilsmen. No true-hearted
States Rights man can be gulled with such trash,
and that, too, from a mail whose Federalism, old
line Black Cockade federalism, has been the ruling
principle of political action through his life—a pub
lic life of over forty years.
“The older I grow the more inclined I am * to be
what is called a States Rights man.” Indeed !!
Let us examine for a moment, and see when he
commenced, and how far he lias inclined toward
States Rights. He was born in 171*1. At twenty
four years old, on the 4th of July, 1815, he proclaim
himself an ultra Federalist, of the Anti-War school,
and denounced in unmeasured terms James Madi
son and the States Rights men of that day! He had
not much of an inclination towards States Right
then, certainly. Four years after, lie advocated the
power of Congress to prohibit slavery by special act
in Missouri ! This was certainly wonderful progress
toward States Rights ! Butin 183Gliehadagreat“rii
clinaliononly an “ inclination , toward States
Rights.” His inclination, however, did not lead him
far, for in 1818 we find him asserting in his letter to
San ford, of Mobile, that “Congress lias the exclusive
power to legislate upon the subject of slavery in the
territories!” We imagine that his Southern Demo
cratic friends could not discover a spark of States
rights in this seutiment, had they glasses of equal
powers with Lord Rosse’s telescope. So far from
it, it is the doctrine of the Federalists and consolida
tionists from the earliest history of the govern
ment. What a glorious States Rights man is this
open advocate of the Wilmot Proviso ! But
again. In 1856, in his letter of acceptance, so
hostile is he to every principle or semblance of States
rights, that lie abandons his Wilmot Provisoisin, and
becomes the open and avowed advocate of Squatter
Sovereignty!—a doctrine more odious and obnoxious
to the South and all true States Rights men than
Wilmot Provisoisin. And this is the man who Is
held up to the people of the South as “ inclining to
States Rights the older he grows.” He is now sixty
five years old, ami is an advocate of Squatter Sove
reignty ! This is the last phase of his States Rights
ism. and is certainly “ inclining ” with a vengeance
towards States rights. We think it requires an ex
traordinary degree of cool impudence for the
spurious, bogus States Rights men of the South to
attempt to palm off such a man upon the people as
a States Rights man. What thinks the Georgian ?
“A Glorious Democrat."
The Nashville Union calls Gov. Wright, of In
diana, “« glorious Democrat .” Yet this same Gov.
Wright is a warm advocate of the Kansas Ne
braska Kill, because il il is the best Wilmot Proviso
ever enacted and he added, “ our Southern breth
ren wid find it o-utP
Is it for such sentiments as this, that the Southern
anti-American organs glorify the Northern Demo
cracy ? Perhaps they glorify the Governor because
he aids them in the attempt to practice a fraud upon
the American people in relation to this Kansas bill.
At the North, the Democracy swear “it is the best
Wilmot Proviso ever enacted,” and at the South
the same party is equally vociferous, it secures the
rights and equality of the South. What a harmo
nious party ! Both sections advocating the bill,
and each maintaining that its principles are as op
posite as the polls. And yet Mr. Buchanan, the
nominee, declares the Northern or squatter sove
reignty construction is the only true one. Will
Southern men, forgetful of their duties to them
selves and the South, permit themselves to be led
into the support of sech a man ? Can it be possi
ble that they are willing thus to sacrifice their rights
at the altar of party ?
A Sound National Democrat. —The Hon.
John Apri.ETON, of Maine, one of those sound na
tional Democrats, of which the people of Georgia
have heard so much eulogy of late, was one of the
prominent speakers at the Buchanan Democratic
State Convention assembled at Bangor, last week,
who in the course of his speech, alluded to the policy
of the Democratic party on the subject of
as the policy, not only of justice, but of freedom;
as the only policy by which slavery has been abolish
ed in this country , and the only policy by which its
abolition can be. reasonably expected hereafter.
Democratic Stampede to Fremont.—The New
York Tribune gives a long list of distinguished
Democrats in that State who have abandoned Bu
chanan and joined the Fremont party, without
whom and those who closely sympathize with them,
it says the New York Democratic party “is a
shadow without the substance.”
It also gives the following list of New York Dem
ocratic papers that have enlisted under the Fre
mont flag :
“ The Ithaca Journal, for nearly thirty years the
Democratic organ in Tompkins county, and the only
paper published in that important county, this week
takes down the flag of Buchanan and Breckenridge
and runs up that of Fremont and Dayton, giving
unanswerable reasons therefor. The Angelica Re
porter, the Democratic organ in Allegany county,
we hear, has done likewise. The Evening Post, of
this city, St. Law’rence Republican, Ogdensburg,
and Otsego Democrat, Cooperstown, took ground
with the Republicans last fall. The Republic, of
Buffalo, Democratic Reflector, Madison county, Ca
yuga New Era. Auburn, Pulaski Democrat; Oswe
go county, and several other influential journals
which supported the Soft Democratic ticket iast fall
hailed the Philadelphia nominations with joy, and
Save them a ready as well as hearty support. Os
le surviving Van Buren Freesoil journals in 1848,
we think a decided preponderance in influence, if
no\, in number, is now' enlisted on the side of t ree
Kansas and Fremont.”
Are the Untefripiep Terrified ?—lt is as
serted, we know not with what truth, by tue Wash
ington correspondent of the New York Herald , that
the original friends of Messrs. Pierce, Cass and
Douglas, in the South and Southwest, are conspi
ring so as to defeat Buchanan by trying to throw
the Presidential election into the House of Repre
sentatives, where they‘hope to exhaust the session
from December to March 1, and finally .leave the
issue lothe Senate, when the election of Brecken
ridge as Vice President, and ex-officio President of
the United States, if he were one of the two
highest candidates for the Vice Presidency, would
be secure.
Terrible Occurrence !—A Man Kicked Over
Tiro Rivers into the Gulf of Mexico!—All the pa
per* hare ‘he Xetcs !—A few days ago, says the
Montgomery Mail , Senators Douglas and Cass,
assisted by a good many other Northern and South
ern Democratic Senators, kicked Franklin Pierce
(late a leader of the bogus Democratic party,) and
his vetoes, across the St. Clair and St. Marys
Rivers, by the way of the Mouths of the Mississippi ,
into the Gulf of Mexico '
Being a “small potato,” he didn’t make much of
a splash, when he fell. A few Southern Senators,
(of the dry-nurse species,) were hanging the little
fellow out to dry, at last accounts.
Wanted—A Buchanan man. who has read and
digested the Cincinnati Platform
The Submarine Telegraph.
A despatch, dated Sydney, Cape Breton, July 12,
states : The submarine electric telegraph cable, fur
the New York, Newfoundland aim London Tele
graph Company, has been successfully laid across
the Gulf of St. Lawrence, between Cape Kay Cove,
Newfoundland, and Ashly Bay, Cape Breton, a
distance of eighty-five miles. Messages arc now
being ireely and instantaneously transmitted from
shore to shore. The Company have now seven
hundred men at work on the line in Newfoundland
and Cape Breton, and it is confidently expected
that tnewline will be completed and iu successful
operation from New York to St. Johns bv the first
of September. It is also expected that the great
oceairihie between St. Johns and the city of Lon
dun wQI l>e successfully laid within one year, aud
thus Ike two Continents of A uicrica and Europe will
be telegraphically united.
The intelligence conveyed in this simple an
nouncement is well worthy of comment. America,
in all probability will, before the close of next year,
be in momentary communication with the whole of
Europe. This will be one of the greatest triumphs
ot modern science, aud will work a silent revolution
in the affairs of the world. Not a pulsation of hu
manity can beat but the throb will be felt iu the
farthermost corners of the earth. It is these changes
that are surely leading the way to better times.
Men have hitherto been estranged from each other
solely because they could not conquer the natural
barriers that divided them. These are rapidly being
removed, and good must accrue. The very elements
are working to destroy ignorance, the source of all
evil.
The uses to which the submarine Telegraph can
be applied and the changes which it will effect can
scarcely be conceived or over-estimated. Not only
may every commercial transaction then be perform
ed with a degree of certainty hitherto impossible, but
our political relations may be placed on a much
safer footing. Conceive a dispute like the vexa
tious Enlistment question, from which we are just
recovering, after two years having been wasted by
Clarendon aud Marcy, in seeking to outvie one
another in prosiness, statecraft and ambiguity,—
conceive such a petty quarrel settled in two or three
hours by direct telegraph messages between Wash
ington and Loudon. Marcy might telegraph;—
“Your enlisting agents are breaking our laws. Tell
them to stop or we will resent it.” Clarendon
could reply : “We have ordered them to stop aud
are sorry they offended you.” What an amount of
ill-feeling, pettiness, doubt and apprehension would
be saved by this direct course. Thousands of buy
ers and sellers have been afraid to transact business,
not knowing what migkt.be the result of this insane
dispute ; hundreds of editors have been dipping
their pens in gall, aud politicians have been steep
ing their tongues iu the same ingredient, and all for
a silly affair that may hereafter be settled by a tele
graphic message.
It may be said that our government will not con
sent to those changes. As regards our own we can
insist on their adopting every reform that will tend
to the general good. The tortuous ways of diplo
macy are a relic of the dark ages. We want
straightforward honesty to take the place of politi
cal intrigue. It will be our own fault if the subma
rine telegraph does not herald the dawn of a better
system. When we have set the example other
countries will follow in good season. If wc decline
to communicate with the governments of Europe
through quires of folio on the ground that a good
cause can be best stated in a few words, we shall
have uo difficulty in inaugurating a great interna
tional reform which will prove more pacific in its
tendencies that have been all the pamphlets ever
issued from Peace Societies.
The Crisis in Nicaragua.
The Presidency of Rivas, ex Custom House offi
cer of Granada, is at ail end in Nicaragua. General
Walker lias been elected Chief Magistrate of the
Republic, and there is now a fair prospect of better
times, provided the new President possesses ad
ministrative talent in proportion to his military skill.
The Rivas government has exhibited a deficiency
•of the ordinary ability of Central American minis
ters —the army lias been unpaid, half clothed and
half fed, and every tax levied on the inhabitants has
been collected by means of force. Martial law ap
pears to have been constantly in vogue, and the
members of the Cabinet were potent only in evil.
Such a state of affairs was certain to lead to anar
chy, and we think the people of Nicaragua have
acted wisely in recording their votes for General
Walker, in order to bring the Rivas administra
tion to a close.
As is usual with defeated politicians in that part
of the world, Rivas lias placed himself at the head
of some hundreds of the natives, and rebelled against
his successor ; but judging from the antecedents of
these men, General Walker will have small trou
ble in quelling their revolutionary tendencies. The
real labor before him is to develop the resources of
the soil, so that the country may really become a
home for the emigrant; to encourage mining opera
tions, as it is well known the land abounds in silver
and copper ; to introduce laws that will have a
civilizing effect on the whole community, and above
all, to adopt some system of finance that will ena
ble commerce to flourish. The monetary laws of
Central America are a disgrace to the age, and so
long as they are allowed to exist a stable government
must be a chimera.
There have beenso many dangers surmounted by
General Walker since his arrival in tho country,
and he has proved himself in every emergency so
peculiarly the man for the crisis that we do not des
pair of witnessing his complete success. Ilis mili
tary renown lias already subdued the turbulent spir
its in the neighboring Republics, who, if they had
possessed energy and courage enough to cope with
him would have ere now caused his overthrow. It
was necessary for him to gain this reputation, but
now lie may safely permit his military operations to
become, a secondary consideration, and exert his ut
most powers to advance the general interests of the
State.
Buchanan Stock Falling.— The New York
Herald , of the 18th instant published the following
from its Washington correspondent:
“The democracy here are becomiug alarmed for
Mr. Buchanan. Mr. Allen will be rejected, which
gives Illinois to the republicans. Mr. Hall, of lowa,
will next go by the board, which secures his State for
Fremont. Should Herbert be convicted of man
slaughter, lie too, will be expelled, with a hope of
securing a free soiler from California to neutralize
Denver. If these things be accomplished, and the
Presidential election is thrown into the House, Fre
mont triumphs. Private letters from Mobile and
otner Southern cities, to prominent democrats here,
report Buchanan’s nomination as a dead flat.”
The Herald jumps to conclusions to secure the
election of Fremont by the House. It forgets en
tirely that new elections will be held and these va
cancies filled, and they might not be filled by Fre
mont men. The present prospect, however is, that
Mr. Fillmore will relieve the House from the ne
cessity of making an election. The people are go
ing to work to secure his election in the electoral
college, leaving the old Federalist and squatter
sovereign, and the young Freesoil traitor, to calcu
late the chances of the success of an honest, straight
forward statesman, against political intriguers and
time-serving demagogues.
Buchanan Gone Down! —There isnothingmore
certain than that Buchanan Ims not. the shadow of a
prospect in New York. Ilis case is hopeless in this
State. History docs not furnish an instance where
a candidate has gone down so suddenly as Buchan
an. A month ago he was formidable ; to-day he is
out of the question. There is no human power that
can save him—and we have no idea that any oth
er power will lie exerted in his favor. —Albany
Statesman.
The Organ says : The Statesman is undoubtedly
correct, and its remarks will apply to many other
States besides New York, with equal force. In
deed, so hopeless is the cause of Buchanan regard
ed by the Democratic members of Congress, that it
is seriously debated at this time, whether his with
drawal is not essential to the preservation of the
Democratic party.
It was mainly to discuss this subject, we are in
formed, that the Democratic causus was held at
the Capitol on Wednesday night last. In that
causus several prominent members openly ex
pressed the opinion that this election was hopeless,
in consequence of his unfortunate antecedents, his
Federalism, his anti-slavery sentiments, his partici
pation in the Ostend Conference, and his complici
ty in the “bargain and corruption” affair against
Mr. Clay.
The Fomeyites in the caucus, however, were in
dignant at the proposition to withdraw Buchanan,
and threatened to break up the party if it were at
tempted.
This is the present condition of the “harmonious
Democracy.”
Extraordinary Machine.
One of the most remarkable machines we have
ever seen, whether we regard it for the simplicity
of its construction, its durability, great labor saving
capacity, or the variety and character of the work
executed by it, is “N. Gear s Machine for cutting,
planing , moulding , fyc. irregular forms in wood.”
If we were to detail its capability, it W’ould not be
credited—it must be seen in operation to appreci
ate its value and usefulness. We endorse the fol
lowing description of it by the Montgomery Mail:
“ We saw it at work, and could never have ima
gined that any machine could so accurately, rapidly
and perfectly produce such various and intricate
forms. A piano stool, a mirror frame, big letters for
signs, carpenters mouldidgs, anything, everything,
come forth as if by magic. And yet the machine to
cut these irregular ana intricate patterns looks like
a simple dining table—is neat, compact, and evi
dently not liable to gdt out of repair. In short, it
beats all the machines we haveseen, and every body
ought to see it.”
(•ant dk McPhernon, Knoxville, Tennessee.
The atteutiou of merchants and others interested
In the purchase and sale of Tennessee produce,
is invited to the advertisement of Messrs. Gant <fc
McPherson, Knoxville, Tenn.
Congress.—There is much, quite too much truth
for the good of the country, in the following remarks
of the Richmond Dispatch:
“ Eight months—eight dreary months of ver
biage, plunder and per diem. In all that time, not
one day of action—but empty froth, abolitionism,
President making, strife, malice, hatred, mint-julep
guzzling—at the expense of this patient and long
suffering country. Os all the evils in the practical
operation of our government, there is none to be
compared to Congress, whose eternal gabble, unlike
that of the ganders of Rome, only injures the Re
public.”
Early Crawford Peaches.—Fruitland Nurse
ry is the choicest spot of ground in creation. There
the earth seems ever fruitful of good things. In for
mer days, it was considered the height of felicity for
a man to sit under his own fig-tree; but at Fruit
land Nursery one can rove among a thousand horti
cultural gems. D. Redmond, Esq., has favored us
with a basket of Early Crawford Peaches, which
are a fair specimen of the Nursery. To describe
their delicious flavor would be only tantalizing to
the reader ; we do a more considerate act by telling
him whence they come.
Interesting to Antiquarians —We have al
ready alluded to the discovery by Col. Rawlinson
of the mummy of Nebuchadnezzar amid the ru
ins of Babylon. There were some few persons
sceptical on the subject but their doubts will be now
set at rest, as tke London Alla* states that a post
mortem examination of the monarch has been made
and the stomach found still of i^ass
Free Society In C'nUroriiia.
The recent execution and transportation of noto
rious criminal* by the Vigilant Committee in San
Francisco are generally viewed as the inevitable
const quencca of a free state of society. Uallot-box
sniffers, gamblers, prize-fighters, convicts and aa
sas. ins, have been allowed to run riot in the city
until no honest man was safe there. The cold
blooded murder of Mr. Kino, the editor of the Sail
Francisco Build'tin, was perpetrated because he lmd
dared to raise his voice in defenoeof truth, and there
can be but little question that had his assassin been
left to the legal authorities he would, instead of hav
ing died the death of a dog, have been at the present
hour at large* planning the murder of others or ca
rousing with the chief officers of the State.
Governor Johnson, who has been virtually super
seded by Judge Lynch, is wrathful at his loss of au
thority, and has sought to obtain troops from Gen
eral Wool to enable him to attack the Vigilance
Committee. The General has wisely declined to
permit lus soldiers to take part in the contest. The
Governor should have seen that the laws were en
forced \vhtu he held power; he must have known
they were a mockery, and now he will have to reap
the fruits of his supiucuess and neglect. In the ad
dress ot the \ igilance Committee to the people of
California the state of society previous to their as
sembling is thus described:
Organized gangs of bad men, of all political par
ties, or who assumed any particular creed from
mercenary and corrupt motives, have parcelled out
our offices among themselves, 01 sold them to the
highest bidders;
Have provided themselves with convenient tools
to obey their nod, as clerks, inspectors aud judges
of election;
Have employed bullies and professional fighters
to destroy tally Ists by force, aud prevent peaceable
citizens from ascertaining, in a lawful manner, the
true number of votes polled at our elections ;
And have used cunningly contrived ballot boxes,
with false sides and bottoms, so prepared that by
meaua of a spring or slide spurious tickets, conceal
ed there previous to the election, could be mingled
with genuine votes.
Os all this we have the most irrcfragible proofs.
Felons from other lauds aud States, and uncon vict
ed criminals equally as bad, have thus controlled
public funds and property, and have often amassed
sudden fortunes without having done an lamest
day’s work with head or hands. Thus the fair in
heritance of our city has been embezzled aud squan
dered—our streets and wharves are in ruins, and
the miserable entailment of an enormous debt will
bequeath sorrow aud poverty to another generation.
The jury box has been tampered with, and our
juvy trials have been made to shield the hundred of
murderers whose red hands have cemented this ty
ranny, and silenced with the bowie knife aud the
pistol, not only the free voice of an indignant press,
but the shuddering rebuke of the outraged citizen.
The ruffians who have lately been shipped by the
Vigilance Committee were said each man to count
us a hundred votes at every election. They elected
their own Representatives for Congress and their
own State officers, and thus knavery became legal
ized. We are| surprised that Northern journalists
should protest against the action of the Vigilance
Committee, because they see in it a defiance of the
law, when the law had been itself a defiance of every
sense of justice ; we are the more surprised at this,
as many of the Northern papers—those more espe
cially of New York city—have been desirous that
Vigilance Committees should urise in their midst to
free the State from the many abandoned characters
who hold power there.
It is not our present object to descant on the
probable result of the action of the Vigilance Com
mittee ; but to ask every thinking person to reflect
on the picture of the much lauded free society re
vealed in the statement above. Often are we told
by Northern fanatics that but for them California
might have become a slave State, aud then civiliza
tion would have been thrown back an era. Civili
zation in California, as we gather from these unvar
nished facts, is the rule of the foreign convict, gam
bler and bully—a reign of terror and extortion—
where the most unscrupulous have been the most
successful, and where the panderers of vice have
been the ministers of the law.
Such is this boasted free society which leads every
where to anarchy and murder. The abrupt expo
sure of this foul cancer by the Vigilance Committee
will be apt to damage the cause of Fremont, ns we
doubt not every one of the knaves recently hung or
transported would have cast a hundred or more
votes for him. It must bo borne iu mind, however,
that many of these villains are being sent to the
North, and it is possible they may control the Presi
dential election. Should this be the case the South
will fully comprehend the meaning of the cry of Free
States, Free Laws and Fremont, and will act in de
fence of law and order.
Very Significant Keniark*.
The Columbus Enquirer says : There was a
mass meeting of “two wings” of the New York De
mocracy, held in the Park on the evening of the Bth
inst. The notorious Capt. Isaiah Kynders, with his
“Empire Club,” was the chief manager. Among
the speakers were James T. Brady, Esq., a National
Democrat, and John Van Buren, Freesoiler. We
desire to call the attention of Southern men t*> a re
mark from each of these gentlemen in their speeches,
as reported in the New York Daily News (Bu
chanan paper. Mr. Brady said of Fillmore :
“One word about Mr. Fillmore. There was no
danger of his aiding the abolition cause. It was
plain on his own declaration. The reason that he
would not favor the abolition cause was that his
purposes were all actually summed up in a tew
words : he hated Win. 11. Seward ; and in that he
(Brady) sympathized with him with all his heart.”
John Van Buren argued to prove that the Cin
cinnati Democratic platform was not at all more
favorable to the South or slavery than the Balti
more platforms of hoik the old parties iu 1852, and
he contended that no Democrat who supported
Pierce on theplulfonn of 1852 could consistently re
fuse to support Buchanan on the Cincinnati plut
forin, on the plea that the latter went beyond the
former in favoring the principles of the South. (It
will be recollected that John stumped it for Pierce
in 1852, and afterwards, less than twelvemonths
ago, offered the resolution adopted by the State
Convention of his party declaring their “Jixcd hos
tility to the introduction of slavery into territor
now free.”) lie avowed that he “greatly disap
proved of the repeal of the prohibition of slavery iu
Kansas;” and his argument to show that the Cin
cinnati platform did not commit the party to the
approval of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise
was ingenious and artful. He said that in speak
ing of the past the Convention could only express
the individual opinions of the members, but that all
Democrats were not bound to concer ! He denied
that there was anything in the Democratic platfoim
which “invited the use of the Democratic organiza
tion for the extension of slavery and he offered a
reward to any one who would show that “there is
anything in the Cincinnati resoluiions that advo
cates or encourages slave territory.”
These remaks by this noted Freesoil leader
ought to convince the South that the game of 1852
is to be played over again by the New,York Softs,
and that the bargain and coalition entered into at
Cincinnati is a corrupt ulliance with traitors and
factiouists, who only dissemble at present for the
purpose of getting office and influence, when they
will again commence their work of agitation and
sectional strife.
House Struck by Lightning in Savannah.—
The Republican states that during a severe thunder
storm, about two o’clock Sunday morning, the
large double tenement frame building on the comer
of McDonough and Price streets, owned by M.
Sheahan, and occupied by the families of J. Reedy
and Mrs. R. Chase, was struck by lightning. The
fluid seemed to have entered one of the chimneys,
and to have diverged when near the second floor
fire-place to various points, visiting, with one or
two exceptions, every room in the house and doing
more or less damage to each, such as displacing
every mantel-piece, shattering the walls and doors,
besides overturning the furniture of the rooms.
There were fourteen persons sleeping in the house at
the time of this occurrence, and most singular to
relate, not one experienced any bodily injury—
though the fluid, in passing three of the sleeping
rooms, coursed within a foot or two of the beds on
which persons were lying.
Mass Meeting in Warkenton. —The friends of
Fillmohl and Dokklson in Warren county, pro
pose to hold a Mass Meeting in Wan enton on Thurs
day, the 14th August. See advertisement.
Crawford, the Sculptor.—Among the passen
gers that arrived at New York on Thursday, in the
Fulton, is Mr. Crawford, the celebrated American
sculptor. He comes to superintend the erection of
the Washington Monument at Richmond, which he
has had cast at Munich.
High Regard for Truth !—The Griffin ‘ Em
pire Stale" says : “Mr. Fillmore can claim but
three counties certain tor him in our State, viz :
Green, Troup and Upson, and even these we deem
doubtful.”
What a commentary is this upon that journal’s re
gard for truth ! Has it no sense of shame left, or
does the desperate fortunes of Democracy require
at the hands of its organs such violence to truth ?
Martin Van Buken’s endorsement of James
Buchanan, as a good enough Buffalo platform man
for him, is not very kindly appreciated by some of
the Southern Democracy, while others seem to re
joice at the reunion with “i he Northern man with
Southern principles,” even upon his own Buffalo
freesoil platform. The truth is, so great is their
love of the public plunder, and so desperate their
fortunes, that they rejoice at any accession to Bu
chanan. Even Martin and John Van Buren
and all their Buffalo Platform associates are most
cordially welcomod.
Roman Catholics Speaking Out.—The Boston
Pilot , the leading Roman Catholic organ in New
England, vouches for Col. Fremont’s Romanism.—
The object and degrading terms on which Buchanan
can obtain Catholic votes, is clearly shown in the
following paragraph from the Pilot:
“We trust no Catholic officer will be driven out
of the Army by the unrelenting bigotry of a d/jtard
Commander-in-Cbief. And we trust, that if the
Chief Bishop (the Pope) requests him (Buchanan; l_o
extend his protection to Catholics, he will treat his
envoy with decent respect, and punish the under
lings (Americans) who dare to trample on the Con
stitution in order to persecute Catholics. No man
shall receive my vote who is not pledge to do us
Catholics justice in the Army and Navy, and not
lend himself, directly or indirectly, to any persecu
tion of us.” _
Quarantine Laws of Savannah.— The Span
ish brig San Miguel , Capt. Ventrosa, arrived
in Savaunah on Saturday laat from Matanzas.
Capt. Ventrosa was not aware of the fact that the
Quarantine laws of that city are enforced on all ves
sels, and he failed to anchor at the quarantine
ground. The failure was reported to the city au
tboritie» by Dr. Demere, the Health officer. The
brig was ordered to the Quarantine, end was towci
down on Tuesday afternoon, there to stay until u is
deemed fit to relieve her. The ev.r
prevailing at Matanzas when the brigsa ' .
is no sickness on board. The Common Council ot
is no sitaness on noaro. determination to
Savannah deserve credit otjne
enforce the observance o c
_ "rp7ECTioN.—The election to fill
t he C by the relation of the
hIo pT b.00*.. of 8. 0., will b. held on kh.
•jHih day of Julfi»»t.
"V Secret Association* in France.
The danger that besets France from the many
revolutionary societies formed in every section of
the country, is revealed by a correspondent of the
London Daily Aero, who has travelled through
France from North to South, and from East to West.
These secret societies cause great anxiety to the
Emperor, who knows not how to check their growth.
Already have they extended to sixty-five Depart
ments, and a Very active propaganda is going on in
the ranks of the army. The Marianne, (meaning in
socialistic language the guillotine) the Militante,
and the Commune Revolutionaire, are the three
principal associations. The Mariaunistes seek to
establish socialism, and as means to that end they
sanction the poiuard, the torch, pillage and confisca
tion. The members arc sworn to strike whenever
the order shall be given, and a betrayer of the se
cret confided to them is punishable by death. The
Militante is for the entire abolition of all existing
laws, confiscation of the property of every individual
possessing more than .*>o,ooo francs, ($10,000) din
missal of all public functionaries, overthrow£of all
established institutions, and death to all (Vsnrs. Its
members are bound by a solemn oath to execute the
"orders of the Committee. The Comimrm Revolu
tionaire has very similar objects in view ; bat not
having so much influence as the other two societies,
it is thought likely to be shortly merged iu them.
When it is remembered how great is the*infiueuee
of France on the whole of the continent of Europe ,
how one blow struck there would rebound In Ger
many and Italy, and other neighboring countries,
we may form some conception of tile critical stale of
Europe. Free society is there undergoing a trial
almost as severe as iu California.
Chakactek of lIF.unEKT.-'lntelligence of tin*
killing of the waiter Keating has been teceived in
California. The San Francisco papers are very hi
liigiuinL at the disgrace brought upon the State by
Mr. Herbert’s conduct, and express their opinions
upon his character and antecedents withsu, li free
dom that it would be improper to reproduce their
comments wiiile his trial is in progress. Mr. Gard
ner, who was his companion in the ufl’rny, and is
now n witness on the trial, is also spoken of with
much severity.— Balt. Aw.
It required no testimony from Culifi ruin to es
tablish his true character in the mind of uny man
who read the testimony. The fact of his going t.>
the breakfast tuble armed, and his low-bred, vulgar
deportment at the table, wore quite sufficient to
show that llkkbkkt is entirely out of place among
gentlemen. This conclusively establishes his iden
tity with the genus low blackguard, mid the follow
ing statement of the San Francisco HnllcPn, show*
that he combines the cross of the blacldcg :
“His previous history is very much like most, of
our public characters—one of infamy and shame,
lie is well known under the title of the ‘Mariposa
gambler.* tic is a gambler by profession, tmd wo
are told formerly dealt ‘monte* somewhere in Mari
posa county, and is without the slightest qualifica
tion for the responsible position lie now occupies.'
We are much ot the opinion that if justice be not
done on him in Washington, lie may be a til subject;
for our friends, the Vigilant.* in Maripoea, should he
ever disgrace that place wit h his presence again.
We are not surprised in the least touoe John i».
Weller, the Senator from this Stall*, the friend And
supporter of the gambler McDuffie, yohinfr i r Iris’
services to procure Uci belt’s release, ovmi from a
preliminary examination, ou account of hi* position
a* the Representative of a sovereign Stan*. We
are inclined to think they arc mistaken in the ma
terial of which jurors are composed in Washington.”
Henry Clay on Section ans M.-y Does not tho
present condition of the Democratic uud Ropubli
cun parties present exactly that perilous crisis which
Henry Clay so eloquently deprecated when ho ut
tered these solemn words in the Senate ?
“Abolitionism should no longer be regarded as au
imaginary danger. Tho Abolitionists, j« I mo sup
pose, succeed in their present aimuf unitiny the in
habitants of the Fret Wales as one man against
the inhabitants of the Shire States. Union oil one
side will beget Union on the other , and th, • process
of reciprocal consolidation will he attended with all
the v'ment prejndiccs i embittered passions, and im
placable animosities ■ which veer dcgnOlcJ or defoj m
cdliumannalu.ee. * ' # * *
One section will stand in tneuanntf and hostile. <u
ray against the other. The collision of opinion lull,
soon be foil meed by the clash of arms. 1 will not
attempt to describe scenes which now happily lie
concealed from our view. Abolitionists. IU.
would shrink back in dismay and hpriltn* rtt the
contemplation of desolated fields, conflagrated
cities, murdered inhabitants, oiid tho overt hrmV oi
the fairest fabric of human government that ev.er
rose to animate the hopes of civilized man
Amos A. Lawrence, of Boston, declines to serve
as a Fremont elector. In his letter to the Hoc ro
tary of the Springfield Republican Convention he
says :
Had I taken an active part in politics, it Would
probably have been known that from the tii.st 1
have been decidedly in favor of Mr. Fillmore. It is
difficult to believe thut the great body of fuii-midefr
men in the South, not one of whom hold elm es,
or has any personal interest in the extern aim* of
slave territory, will sustain the recent aggressions on
the rights of the free States, and of those who have
gone out from them os settlers, or that they will
justify the attempts to suppress free debate iu (’in -
gress. Ir. has beeu more reasonable to believe that
t hey .would unite with the same class of men at the
North under some organization like that of the
American party, aud prevent the continuant of a
democratic administration. Mr. Fillmore’s adminis
tration commanded tho respect, and confidence of
the country. Had he been re-nominated the pres
ent one would have lmd its existence.
The (loon Cause in ALaiiama.—A correspon
dent of the Memphis Eagle, writing from Noith Al
abama, says:—The cause of Fillmore and I
SON is warming up iu this section of the Stale, the
ranks arc swelling by continued accessions, and tin*
“cry is still they come.” Never was a nomination
more enthusiastically received—never a pro: poet
more brilliant. Under the. magical eloquence
Senator Clemens —the proud defender of American
principles, the terror of the Democracy, you
may count upon the redemption of our patriotic
State from the withering blight of the Foreign An
ti Americanism.
Liberia.—Ex-President Rouerts of Libera,
is in Boston seeking to make arrangements lor es
tablishing a college at Monrovia. His f'l. y in this
country will lie short, as he intends to leave some
time in August for England, where he will join his
family, and proceed with them to Africa. Presi
dent Kouerts speak very favorably of the slate of
things in the new Republic..
Mrs. Kf.atino. —A report has been circulated that
the wile of Keating, was who shot at Willard’s Ho
tel by Mr. Herbert, had died of grief. A Washing
ton correspondent, writes under date of .Inly 10, as
follows :
I have just returned from the result time of Airs,
Keating. She is a very pretty little Irish woman,
and of real Irish life. She iuidrma me that tlx-1 uni ho
she lives in has beeu donated to Irerby gent h-men
since the death of her husband.
Buchanan in Ohio.—The Cincinnati Commercial.
says : —At Cuinminsville, last Saturday, there was
a Buchanan meeting. We are credibly informed
that a tremendous effort was made to get a “rous
ing” meeting iu the way of drumming, etc. At
length when night came and the how arrived, there
was an aascuihlnge. Gen. MeMukTu w..s’ made
Chairman, and thirty-nine persons were found to bo
present, eleven of whom were known to he Fremont
men. After the organization eleven Democrats
withdrew from the crowd and organized a Fremont
Club, leaving the General to preside ovo euveu
teen individuals.
A letter, dated Antigua, W. 1., June IH, state*
that the sugar making season was nearly ovei, and
the yield had been most, prolific. There had been
sent to England and Belgium fully 39JJ00 hhds. and
1400 hhds. molasses, and about the same quantity
to the United States. The health of the Island was
good.
Mr. Blshkod W. Vick, of South Carolina, caned
Mr. Jacob Stanvvood, of Massachusetts, at ihe
Metropolitan Hotel,New York, on the loth instant,
in consequence of the hitter having designated the
Sumner assault as brutal and cowardly. Mr. Vick
has been held to bail in the sum of S3OO lo answer
the charge before the August term of the Court ot
General Sessions.
Cheering Prospects.—The Griffin Union says ;
From Pike, Butts, Henry, Fayette, Coweta, Meri
wether, and we may add our own county'of Spald
ing, we hear cheering accounts of the people s pr<-
ference for Mr. Fillmore for the Presidency. The
eminenoy of danger to the country is rapidly devel
oping the conservative strength of the musses.
Georgia and Florida Railroad.—The Albany
Patriot , of the 17th inst. states tlmt the entire grn
dation of this Hoad, together with the stringers and
cross-ties, was placed under contract Wednesday,
the 9th instant to Messrs, K. T. & W. T. Lawton'
to be completed to Albany by October Ist, 1857 -
Payments half cash, half stock. Prices—gradation
15c. per cubic yard—cross-ties 25c. each— stringers,
delivered, $1 per 100 feet, board measure.
Henry Koch, a young German, in the employ
ment of a grocer in Savannah, was drowned in a
bathing house near that city, on Sunday afternoon.
Missouri.—The vote of Missouri in the next
Presidential election is estimated at 110,000. The
number of enrolled members of the American parly
iu that State is said to be 62,000, exclusive of sym
path jeers, who will probably increase the vole for Un-
American candidates ten thousand. Missouri is
sure for Fili.morke and Donelson, and no mis
tak<\
Johl L. Stephens, Esq., of LaGrange, Ga., died
of appoplexy on the 16th instant., at the residence
of the Rev. O ris L.Smith, in that village, whither
he had gone on business, and was partaking of some
lemonade and cakes, when he was suddenly seized
with a fit of appoplexy and expired in two or tliiee
minutes.
Mr. Charles D. Bonsall, formerly Editor of the
Vicksburg (Miss.J Whig, died in Grauuda, ou the
2d ult.
The Mayor of Charleston lias Utkcn efficient step*
for the rigid enforcement of the quarantine lavrs, by
cutting off all unauthorized communication with the
interdicted vessels.
One or the Trtuunc't “Kansas outrage’’ mauufac
turers is getting discouraged for the want of mate
rial. Speaking of a Kansas company orr the road,
the writer says:
“I almost hope to hear that some of their lives
have been sacrificed, for it seems as if nothing but
that would rouse the Eastern States to act."
The population of Cuba is estimated at the present
time at about 1,000,000. Os these 6.10,000 are
white, 750,000 slave black, and about 200,000 free
black. By a royn! order of 12th March, 1807, free
colored people were prohibited from landing in Cuba
on any pretence whatever.
The Chicago Tribune says there are townships in
lllnois bithertho Democratic, ui which not a solitary
vote will he east for Buchanan.
Execution* in South Carolina.—M. M. Cha
ney, convicted of negro stealing, was bung at Lan -
casterville on Friday, Iltli inst. lie persisted to fhq
last in asserting bis innocence. Moses Gossett,
convicted of the same offence, (negro stealing; ex
piated his crime on the same day at Unionrilh.
Seven Lives Lost.—The destructive fire at
Toronto, (Canada) on the J&h inst, caused the
death of seven workmen, employed in the cabinet
factory of Messrs. Jucques &. Hay.
Hon. Oscar F. Moore, the present “Republi
can’’ member of Congress from the Ross district, in
Ohio, has declared himielf against Fremont, and will
take the stamp fsi FiUasere